February 4, 2013

ADDED: In Jindalworld, the GOP is, right now, the stupid party, so anyone who currently believes he should be the candidate is stepping up to lead The Stupid Party and must be stupid. First, make the party smart. Then, we can talk about whether who should be leading it... obviously, someone who stepped up not to lead it in its present stupid form but who stepped up to make it smart. Which would be Jindal. Get it? He's running.

I fail to see how this is helpful to his party, but maybe thats just me.

Frankly, IMO, anybody who wants to pursue political power needs to have their heads examined.

First, the level of scrutiny on an average persons life is so brutal as to remove the vast majority of decent people from running. Who hasn't made mistakes in the past that can be exploited as smears?

Also, those that push through the gauntlet in order to achieve power are the least trustworthy to wield it. Is there really any politician out there that you would trust farther than you can throw a dead cat?

Such a perverse situation, no one worthy of governing in the modern era will even attempt it, and only those that are unfit are allowed to achieve it.

Jindal has a couple of big strikes against him, especially that he attended or participated in an exorcism while in college. People need to understand their limits, and he's reached his. He'll never be elected president and his attempts to thrust himself into the spotlight hurts those who have a chance.

After the last couple of times I have to agree with him. Anyone would be stupid to run because what works will get repeated and there will be an all out effort to destroy that person and their family *utterly*.

Synova said... After the last couple of times I have to agree with him. Anyone would be stupid to run because what works will get repeated and there will be an all out effort to destroy that person and their family *utterly*.

Personal destruction works.

This is true but it isn't what Jindal said. He believes Republicans shouldn't be running a campaign now. Instead they should be governing and finding better ideas so when it is time to campaign they're prepared.

On the other hand, if the dems are successful in handing out citizenship like candy to what will be a flood of about 20 million low educated, low skills immigrants and can get alot of them into Texas, it is debateable whether or not Republicans would be able to win the White House again for at least a generation without becoming even more like the dems.

Pay no attention to the chatter. Just watch what they do. What those interested in 2016 will do is to start building a team, trying to identify who among the players might support them, and all the while earning chits they can use later. And they will do it quietly (for now). Including Jindal.

I think a very wise move by the GOP candidates would be to support a simple law that creates a hard cap on bank size of 100 billion, and a cap on leverage. I would also include a requirement of performance bonds for banks - The top execs must come up with an amount of funds based on a percent of the bank's size that will be forfeit if the bank fails.

I think a whole lot of people would be happier with smaller banks, and no more TBTF.